Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Don Lavoie can be contacted at donaksc9dthdcom

Country of Service: Gabon

Training Group Name: Gabon I School Construction,

Cities you served in: Libreville,

Years of Service: 1963, 1964,

Work Description: School construction

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

After collecting my mustering out pay I made my way to Paris for short stint at La Sorbonne to improve my language skills. An offer to join Peace Corps staff was eagerly accepted which included tours of duty in the Carribbean and as Country Director for Senegal. After twelve years of service a call came in the night from a Canadian friend offering a career change and a chance to experience another part of the world. In 1975 I joined Lavalin International, a Canadian engineering firm from Montreal. I packed up my wife and two children and set up shop in Manila, then Singapore, then Jakarta, then New Delhi and finally Bangkok (1989). I came to Bangkok for three months to help negotiate a contract for a mass transit system (SkyTrain), somehow the Canadian version never made it here, but there is still hope.

Presently I am the Regional Director for Thailand, Philippines and Indochina for Bombardier Total Transportation Systems Division, which is responsible for development, design and supply of complete transportation systems.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Joan E. Meyer can be contacted at jemeyerarockrivednet

Country of Service: Gabon

Cities you served in: Lebamba

Years of Service: 1988-1990

Work Description: Fisheries

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

My maiden name was Spink and I went by my middle name, Elaine during my PC service. I got married 8/12/00 and liv in Rockford, IL

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

Looking for John Sandberg and Cameron Miller who were in my fisheries training group and served in Gabon also 1988-1990

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Barbara Embry can be contacted at barbembryaaoldcom

Country of Service: Gabon,

Training Group Name: Education,

Cities you served in: Moabi and Ndende,

Years of Service: 1988, 1990,

Work Description: Teacher of English

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Jennifer L. Brown can be contacted at jennifer_l_brownagrotondpfizerdcom

Country of Service: Gabon

Years of Service: 1995-1997,

Work Description: Taught Physical Sciences in Mouila, at St. Gabriel Secondary School

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

I've been working for Pfizer Inc since I returned home. I worked as an analytical chemist for over two years and am now working in the Regulatory Affairs department preparing documents for submission to the FDA.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

I'd love to hear from anyone who served in Gabon at the same time I did.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer David Starnes can be contacted at dstarnes70ahotmaildcom Country of Service: Gabon

Training Group: Omnibus

Cities you served in: M'bigou

Arrival Year: 1993

Departure Year: 1995

Work Description: High School Science teacher

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Andrew Herman can be contacted at andrewdhermananeomindorg Country of Service: Gabon

Cities you served in: Mimongo and Libreville

Arrival Year: 1993

Departure Year: 1996

Work Description: TEFL and Health

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

married with three bambinos

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

I wanna go back

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Terri Schoeneman can be contacted at t_schoenemanahotmaildcom Country of Service: Gabon

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Aline Hoey can be contacted at hoeyaukansdedu

Country of Service: Gabon

Training Group: 1990

Cities you served in: Ndjole

Arrival Year: 1990

Departure Year: 1992

Work Description: Education

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

I did a Peace Corps Fellowship at Northern Arizona University. Taught on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Then moved to Lawrence. Had a baby. Quit teaching and am now a Peace Corps campus rep and University of Kansas and the mother of a beautiful almost 6 month old.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Too many thoughts. Now that I have been back for almost 9 years I feel that I am too reassimilated into the American pace of life and need for possessions.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Scott Genzer can be contacted at sgenzeramacdcom

Country of Service: Gabon

Training Group: PST LBV 1993

Cities you served in: Ndjole

Arrival Year: 1993

Departure Year: 1995

Work Description: 6e and 7e math teacher

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: I married Kim Goodman (now Genzer) in 1998. We moved to Warsaw, Poland in 2000 and work at the American School. We have a daughter, Sarah Marie, born in Warsaw in Sept 2001.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?: It was certainly hotter there than here in Warsaw! I don't miss my old school, but I do miss my old friends.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: anyone from my group

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Kerran Robbins Vigroux can be contacted at kvigrouxacomcastdnet

Country of Service: Gabon

Training Group: Liberia, Zaire, Mississippi

Cities you served in: Makongonio

Arrival Year: 1990

Departure Year: 1991

Work Description: Aquaculture

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: Got married to Lionel Vigroux (met in Gabon)We have two children, Zack (4) and Morgane (1 1/2). I went back to school for a Master's in Public Health. Now living in Derry, New Hampshire.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: Jimmy - where are you?

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ekinetou Chrysostome can be contacted at chrysostome2ayahoodcom

Country of Service: Gabon

Training Group: any

Cities you served in: Gabon, Franceville

Arrival Year: 2002

Departure Year: 2004

Work Description: student

Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description:

gabon

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

I would want to hear from Douglas Himes.Gabon

Any message for returned volunteers?:

I'm from Gabon in particular Franceville. I have moved to tje US for my master degree and would want to be in touch with PCV who had served in Gabon during these past years. Bonjour a tous c'est avec plaisir que je voudrais etablir des contacts avec des PCV qui ont servi au Gabon ou a Franceville d'ou je suis originaire.Actuellement je suis a Dominican University ( River Forest Illinois). Bye et a bientot a tous.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Justin Westbrook can be contacted at justinwestbrookahotmaildcom

Country of Service: Gabon

Training Group: Primary School Construction

Cities you served in: Motobo, Ndjounou, Idemba, Alene, Zanangoue

Arrival Year: 1988

Departure Year: 1990

Work Description:

Built two room schools and mud teachers' homes in villages in the interior.

Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description:

n/a

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

lived in Hermosa Beach CA, two years flying helicopters in the South Pacific, three plus years flying in West Africa on a WHO project(treating rivers on a river blindness control program), and last winter on Bioko island flying and managing a similar WHO project.

Now in Tupelo, MS. Down, but not out.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Only the fondest of memories, and the beginning of my life in the world.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Tracey Lin (Moore) Edou can be contacted at traceylinedouaverizondnet

Country of Service: Gabon

Cities you served in: Mitzic

Arrival Year: 1993

Departure Year: 1996

Work Description:

math teacher, though I ended up teaching TEFL too.

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

After Peace Corps, I stayed in Gabon for another 7 years, teaching in different schools. I did my master's in education in South Africa in the summers, and I moved back to the US this last August to teach junior high math here. I had a daughter Tisha in 1997.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

I think that Peace Corps was great, but I learned more about the country by staying there even longer.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

Mike Fields

Any message for returned volunteers?:

I'm afraid that I am deep in the midst of reverse culture shock, after 10 years there. I don't think that I have much to say except "aaauuuggghhh".

After Gabon, I served in Crisis Corps with the IRC in Guinea, then a masters in non-profit management, and have been managing for a medical relief organization (Merlin) in DRC, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Afghanistan, and now in Central Asia.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Sometimes I wish I hadn't served, it might have made life easier -- not knowing. Most times, I am thankful for the day I had the idea.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer karl rosenberg can be contacted at kfrose66ahotmaildcom

Country of Service: Gabon

Training Group: no idea

Cities you served in: Oyem and MBengha

Arrival Year: 1992

Departure Year: 1995

Work Description:

Fisheries Volunteer and later Volunteer Leader

Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description:

Trainer in Gabon and Cameroon 1997, 1998. Peace Corps Africa region staff while in grad school: summer 1999 and 2000. Also child of Volunteers and lived in Nairobi, Kenya as a child between late 1970 and late 1972.

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

Masters in Economics and Social Change and Development at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington, DC (fall 2000); Assistant Country Director for Irish Charity GOAL in Angola (01-02); CARE Haiti (02-03); currently with CRS in Haiti.

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